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Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood; 2 May 1808 – 2 October 1896) was an English woman who was the wife and first cousin of Charles Darwin. They were married on 29 January 1839 and were the parents of ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.
Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843) and his first cousin, Sara Coleridge; D. Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood. [10] Their respective siblings Caroline Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), entrepreneur, also married. [11] St George Daly, Irish judge and politician, and his first cousin, Louisa Gore
He was a cousin of Charles Darwin, whom his sister Emma married in 1839. [1] Early life ... Hope Elizabeth (1844–1935) married her cousin Godfrey Wedgwood.
Albert Einstein did it. So did Charles Darwin. All sorts of British royalty, including Queen Elizabeth. ... Rudy Giuliani married a first cousin, so did singer Jerry Lee Lewis, who at 22, married ...
His father, Charles Darwin – who married his first cousin – had initially speculated that cousin marriage might pose serious risks, but perhaps in response to his son's work, these thoughts were omitted from a later version of the book they published.
Robert Darwin, a freethinker, had baby Charles baptised in November 1809 in the Anglican St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury, but Charles and his siblings attended the local Unitarian Church with their mother. The eight-year-old Charles already had a taste for natural history and collecting when he joined the day school run by its preacher in 1817.
Susannah Wedgwood (1765–1817), aunt, married Dr Robert Darwin - Charles Darwin, Emma's husband and first cousin, was their son. John Wedgwood (horticulturalist) (1766–1844), uncle, married Jane Allen. Josiah Wedgwood II (1769–1843), father, married Elizabeth Allen. Thomas Wedgwood (1771–1805), uncle.
Despite Darwin's concerns that his children were weakened as his wife Emma Darwin was his cousin or had inherited his own illness, around early 1868 his sons had successes with William Darwin doing well as a bank manager, Leonard Darwin coming second in the entrance exam for the Royal Military Academy and George coming runner-up in his mathematics degree class at the University of Cambridge ...